Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been acting like a bull in the A.F.L. china shop. He has raided other A.F.L. unions. He has even scared the wits out of roaring Dan Tobin, the teamsters' international president and Beck's boss. Recently Beck demanded that Tobin fire Lester Hunt, editor of the union paper and Tobin's ally. Meekly old Dan complied. This week, writing in the Washington Post, Hunt wigwagged a frantic warning...
...ruled the land. Revolt brewed against them in 1368. To break it, the alien despots posted guards in the foremost Chinese households. When the feast-day came, families gathered and all went as usual-until mooncakes were served. When the feasters broke into the pastries, they found slips of paper with the message: "Kill the Tartars in your household." All rose in mighty unison. The aliens were driven forth and the peace of the Mings descended on China...
...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...
...boys,* only John has followed in his father's sport steps. He also seems to have inherited his father's ear for speech and tongue for humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent, for N.A.N.A. and Newsweek...
National Guardian's prospectus was vague, but a tabloid preview edition printed last month (as the National Gazette) by Publisher J. W. Gitt of the York (Pa.) Gazette & Daily gave the general idea. Smartly made up (Gitt regularly wins typographical awards for his own paper), it gave six columns to Henry Wallace's politicking, and brushed off the Battle of Berlin as something "fought mainly by the newspapers whose reports scared the daylights out of some Americans." (Gitt has since withdrawn as a sponsor.) It looked as if the Guardian's complexion would be somewhere between pink...